Anyone one else jump this bird?
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C-123, my 2nd and 4th jumps in Airborne School were out of one. Mostly I jumped 130's and 141's and Otters and Hueys and Chinooks and Blackhawks and a few others.
Napoleon's balloon?
Ditto on those birds except the Otter and Blackhawks...here's another from back in the day...C-7 Carabou..
I almost suggested we go there again yesterday. We just left the Sapp Bros.
Nice. 
I don't think I ever saw a Caribou or a 123 except in photos. (There's a famous and particularly horrific photo of a C-7 taking off from a jungle airstrip right at the moment its tail section is shot off by a nearby "friendly" 105 battery.)
I don't think I ever saw a Caribou or a 123 except in photos. (There's a famous and particularly horrific photo of a C-7 taking off from a jungle airstrip right at the moment its tail section is shot off by a nearby "friendly" 105 battery.)
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I'd forgotten you guys had the Caribou. The Aussies loved theirs from memory. Brilliant short field aircraft.
My first military flight was in a Caribou, nap of the earth for a couple of hours, we had near on an 85% spew rate within the platoon.
Here a beauty thats
being restored...asked a maintenance guy if he could step outside and get a pic of her...if not for the C-47 Skytrain...who knows how the world would be now.
being restored...asked a maintenance guy if he could step outside and get a pic of her...if not for the C-47 Skytrain...who knows how the world would be now.
I have an OV-10 jump.Nice.
I don't think I ever saw a Caribou or a 123 except in photos. (There's a famous and particularly horrific photo of a C-7 taking off from a jungle airstrip right at the moment its tail section is shot off by a nearby "friendly" 105 battery.) The routine aircraft traffic almost continuously overhead at various altitudes while I was in country was mostly rotor, Hueys and Loaches, 46's, 47's, 53's and once in awhile we'd spot a 54 slinging a busted Huey. 130's were common fixed-wing sights, and the contrails from BUFFs headed north.
I used to love the OV-10s. We worked with them often on day ops, with an OV-10 spotting for us and directing us toward possible targets. I read somewhere--possibly here on SS--that some SF or Recon folk even jumped from them on occasion.
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Here a beauty thatsView attachment 23807 being restored...asked a maintenance guy if he could step outside and get a pic of her...if not for the C-47 Skytrain...who knows how the world would be now. Would give a nut to jump one of these...
I highly recommend the museum .. the hidden gem are the volunteers and the 'stories' they tell.
Oh yes. RP had a long discussion with one about thorium when we were there last monthish. We were driving north on 15 to a pickup and since we had a few hours to kill stopped in. I loved seeing all the photos and documents like birth certificates that list grid or area code.
Throw the rest of your photos up please.
Had one fly over my farm a few years ago...heard it coming long before I saw it--thrilling to see it fly over at about 500 ft. Same thing later when the Memphis Belle came over the treetops at me, flying low and loud...both headed for an air show. Made my week.
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Another bird before my time...Jolly Green Giant!
Nice.
I don't think I ever saw a Caribou or a 123 except in photos. (There's a famous and particularly horrific photo of a C-7 taking off from a jungle airstrip right at the moment its tail section is shot off by a nearby "friendly" 105 battery.)
Another bird before my time...Jolly Green Giant!
..guess who..
Another on the C-7
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Way to make me feel like a cherry. C17’s, 130’s and chinooks is all I have... 60 jump got scrapped after I was JMPI’d. You guys used to have a lot more options for jumping static line.
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